Gorakha : Police have arrested two cadres of the Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’ group from Gorakha. Those arrested are Bishnu Rijal and Ishwar Pandey. Rijal is the group’s Gorakha district people’s council chief while Pandey is the central member of All Nepal National Independent Students Union (ANNISU) close to the Biplav-led group. Rijal was arrested…
Kathmandu : Almost a year after the announcement of a merger between two leftist forces to form the country’s largest communist party, leaders on Monday announced official conclusion of the unification process. At a programme organised in the Capital to announce a closure of the unification process, Co-chairmen KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal…
Kathmandu : The reconstruction of 4,476 schools that were damaged by the April 25, 2015 Gorkha Earthquake and its subsequent aftershocks has been completed so far. The Central Project Implementation Unit (Education) stated that out of these reconstructed school structures, 3,583 were rebuilt through the school management committees, 135 were rebuilt through the construction entrepreneurs…
Kathmandu : Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has expressed profound grief over the incident of serial bomb explosions leaving hundreds of people dead and injured in Colombo of Sri Lanka. Issuing a press release, NC President and former Prime Minster Deuba has condemned the incident and note the incident has aggrieved and shocked the…
Biratnagar : Senior litterateur and linguist Prof Bal Krishna Pokharel passed away this morning. He was 85. He died at his residence in Biratnagar-8 at 1:00 am today. Pokharel had been admitted to the hospital on Saturday after he suffered a sudden low blood pressure. Pokharel has more than 115 creations to his credit,…
Kathmandu : Minister for Communications and Information Technology Gokul Prasad Banskota left here for Barcelona, Spain today to take part in the Mobile Congress, 2019 to be held there from February 25 to 27. The Congress is organised by the Global System for Mobile Communications and Minister Banskota will be attending a ministerial level programme…
Kathmandu : President Bidya Devi Bhandari today authenticated three bills endorsed by the both houses of the Federal Parliament. The Head-of-the-State gave assent to the documents in accordance with the Article 113 (2) of the constitution. Those documents are the National Medical Education Bill; the bill to revise an Act to Regulate and Control International…
Kathmandu : Nepal defeated the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to win its third match under the ICC Women T20 World Cup Qualifier Asia-2019 going on in Thailand. In the match held today at Terdthai Cricket Ground, Nepal met a target of 42 runs posted by the UAE in 10.2 overs at a loss of three…
Rupandehi, Feb 22 : Province assembly member of Province-5 Uttar Kumar Oli has passed away. Oli who sustained critical injuries in road accident died at 1.00 am this morning. informed Durlav Kumar Pun, secretary at the province assembly secretariat. He met with accident in Dang while returning home from province assembly meeting on February…
Kathmandu : The Standing Committee (SC) meeting of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) scheduled for Sunday afternoon was postponed at the eleventh hour. The meeting summoned at 4:30 pm was postponed due to busy schedule of party chairperson and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, according to the party office secretary Krishna Gopal Shrestha. The next…
